FOR FANS OF OVERLY DRAMATIZED JOURNEY, BON JOVI.Byline: Evan Henerson Theater Critic THERE ARE bad ideas, worse ideas and Vegas-worthy ideas. Then there's ``Rock of Ages,'' a bad idea that wants to go to Vegas. Well, I guess if you've got to have a dream ... ``Rock of Ages'' is a 1980s jukebox musical, performed in a Hollywood Boulevard For uses other than the original street, see Hollywood Boulevard (disambiguation). Hollywood Boulevard is a boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, beginning at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue, where it straightens out club, during which actors - accompanied by a live band - sing the music of Bon Jovi  This article or section reads like a and may need a .Please help [ to improve this article] to make it in tone and meet Wikipedia's . , Pat Benatar Pat Benatar (born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski on January 10, 1953) is an influential four-time Grammy Award-winning American rock singer with many million and multi-million selling records worldwide. , REO Speedwagon, Quiet Riot and a bunch of other bands you thought (hoped?) you had heard the last of. Yes indeed, hair-band fans, somebody has actually developed a situation in which a portion of the Starship song ``We Built This City'' is sung in the context of a plot. And what a plot! Girl comes to Tinseltown with star dreams in her eyes. Club busboy wants to rock. Rock star comes between them. German conglomerate tries to strip-mall-icize the clubs along the Sunset Strip. Everybody sings Journey's ``Don't Stop Believing.'' Curtain. Set aside any preferences about the tunes. Under David Gibbs and Kyle Puccia's musical direction, they're lively, not drawn out and should pluck countless nostalgia strings ... or send anyone under the age of 30 screaming for the exits. Chris D'Arienzo's book is consciously awful, and director Kristin Hanggi clearly expects her cast to give said awfulness a full bear hug Bear Hug An offer made by a company to buy the shares of another company that is too high for the board of the target firm to refuse. Notes: If the target company says the merger is okay but they want a higher price, it is called a "teddy bear hug. with tongue regularly in cheek. It doesn't gel. Laura Bell Bundy (of Broadway's ``Hairspray'' and ``Wicked'') as the ingenue in·gé·nue also in·ge·nue n. 1. A naive, innocent girl or young woman. 2. a. The role of an ingénue in a dramatic production. b. An actress playing such a role. and James Snyder as the hopeful rocker are occupying an alternate universe from the clowning antics of Tom Lenk, Dan Finnerty and Kyle Gass (the latter two of whom have to sing REO reo Noun NZ a language [Maori] Speedwagon's ``I Can't Fight This Feeling'' to each other.) By that time, any self-respecting theater- or club-goer of any age will have long since stopped believing. ROCK OF AGES - One star Where: Vanguard, 6021 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. When: 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, 7 p.m. Friday; through Feb. 18. Tickets: $34.50 to $45. (800) 595-4849. In a nutshell: Loud, corny corn·y adj. corn·i·er, corn·i·est Trite, dated, melodramatic, or mawkishly sentimental. [From corn1. , expensive garbage. Evan Henerson, (818) 713-3651 evan.henerson(at)dailynews.com |
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